[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

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  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/38

Purpose

[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a house with flanking links terminating in pavilions. The main house has a porte-cochere to the front, leading to a double-apsidal hall, followed by a principal and service stairs, and a saloon to the rear with external perron stairs. Rooms include a dining room, drawing room and octagonal dressing room for the client, as well as a library and bed chamber in the flanking links. The pavilions comprise a nursery and dressing room for Lady Hannay on one side, and an octagonal billiard room and upper floor to the kitchen on the other side, both with additional staircases

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of / (in the hand of William Adam) Kirkdale in Galloway the Seat of Sir Samuel Hannay Bart / (in another hand) Kitchen / continued / Billiard room / Library / Sir Samuels / Dressing room / Dining room / Saloon / Hall / Drawing room / Anti room / or / Dressing room / Powdg / room / Bed Cham.^r / Powd.^g / room / Lady Hannays / Dress.^g room / Nursery / Extends 282 feet with some room dimensions / (verso) 6

Signed and dated

1787
R^t Adam Archit.^t 1787.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (506x308)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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